Ermonela Jaho gives an emotionally shattering performance. The combination of her fragility with the burning lava flow of orchestral sound that Pappano gets in Puccini is overwhelming. This Butterfly takes wing.

Bored with the idea of seeing yet another Butterfly performance? Think again. You will be in for a treat. A roller coaster of emotions bursts from the screen and grabs your attention, supported by outstanding singing and conducting.

An intense and gripping journey from light and excitement to darkness and self-sacrifice, Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier's stunningly beautiful production is set in exotic Nagasaki. Puccini's music brings alive the birdsong of the morning, the ritual of a wedding and the seduction by callous US naval officer B.F. Pinkerton (sung by exciting young tenor Marcelo Puente) of his young, innocent bride Cio-Cio-San (Jaho in the title role at Covent Garden for the first time).